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India
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| reasons for Britain to colonize India | trade |
| British East India Company | company that monopolized many Indian services which was taken over in 1958 by Queen Victoria |
| Sepoy Rebellion | 1857 when Hindus and Muslims went against the British because of animal encased gun pouches, conversion to christianity and traveling over seas |
| viceroy | british leader of India |
| INC | india national congress: main party in India |
| Muslim League | Led by jinnah, they wanted more say and to create Pakistan |
| Amritsar massacre | British general Dyer openned fire on an illegal meeting of the sikhs |
| Mohandas Gandhi | leader of the movement to gain India its independence. He used nonviolent acts and was assassinated by an extremist. |
| Muhammad Jinnah | leader of the muslim league and became first president of Pakistan |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | First primie minister of India and was considered a socialist. He believed in constitutional reform. |
| Types of government in India and Pakistan toady, | India is democratic while Pakistan is a dictatorship |
| poverty in india and Pakistan | both have high rates of poverty |
| How was Bangladesh formed? | made from east Pakistan and was helped form by india |
| Line of control | place where there is a lot of tension between India and Pakistan |
| Tension over nuclear weapons | both India and Pakistan have nuclear weapons |
| origins of caste system | Aryans came to the indus valley and created the caste system to benefit themselves |
| Akbar's rule | tolerant and even married a hindu princess |
| Shah Jahan and the Taj Mahal | built for his dead wife and took 22 years and 20,000 workers |
| reasons for the decline of the Mughal dynasty | wasteful spending, civil war and intolerance of hindus also start of european imperialism |
| Asoka's rule | first was like a dictator but had an epiphany and converted to buddhism. he then was tolerant and spread buddhism |